Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1954, when 81 high school seniors took 130 of the old School and College Study Examinations and no one received Sophomore Standing, the number of A.P. candidates has quadrupled and the total of exams presented has increased six-fold. According to director Edward T. Wilcox, the program is still growing, and "no ceiling is in sight...
Nestled in a fold of the snow-crested mountains of northern Lebanon, surrounded by vineyards, orchards and stony fields, lie the Christian village of Kobeyat and the Moslem village of Jaafra. But there is bad blood between them. In the Lebanese rebellion of last summer, the 8,000 Maronite Roman Catholics of Kobeyat supported the government of President Camille Chamoun; the 2,000 Moslems of Jaafra enthusiastically backed the rebels. At one point armed raiders from Jaafra stormed the police post in Kobeyat, killed a Christian woman and wounded five other villagers before being driven...
Ultimate in Automation. The postal metering machine, which stamps and seals up to 175 letters a minute, has fathered a new family of machines to automate the office. In one minute different P-B machines can stuff 100 envelopes, fold 300 sheets, open 700 letters, sort 750 checks (see cut), count and tabulate 1,000 dollar bills...
Goheen feels that, far from letting some clubs fold and allowing much of the student body to desert the club system, Prospect Street will accomodate the more academically-orientated atmosphere of the New Princeton. He sees "hopeful signs of the clubs' trying to offer some of the quasi-academic virtues of the Quad system." The next few years, as Wilson Lodge and the Quad grow, will determine the accuracy of Goheen's prediction...
...second-rank luminaries of the New Deal and to their alphabetical jurisdictional tangles, Schlesinger is most fascinated by the man who had to make all the final decisions. The verdict--in almost all the multitudinous skirmishes for the President's mind and in the Presidents's conscience--is two fold: for the people and for action. Perhaps a diligent student could achieve what Schlesinger has achieved in compiling--in a topical organization--the wealth of material about the tangible activities of the New Deal. But the decision-taking process at the top would still remain a mystery, the paradox...